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It can get you into trouble but it can’t get you out*
By Me | January 10, 2006
You know, never mind having ethics or morals.
If nothing else works to keep you on the straight-and-narrow, consider what happens when you get caught.
I’d say Jack Abramoff is learning, painfully, that it hurts to hit bottom when you get knocked off your pinacle.
The rest of us are learning, or should be, that the deep and profound personal connections that constitute friendships don’t come any easier with money and power.
Au contraire, as a matter of fact.
No, I don’t feel especially sorry for him. I do feel sorry for his kids, partly because of this humiliation the family is enduring and partly because I shudder to think what kind of values they’ve been taught during their formative years.
Then again, maybe the kids can be salvaged, if they’re paying attention to what’s happening to their dad.
In which case, you might say that Jack still has his uses.
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* From The Devil’s Right Hand by Johnny Cash (lyrics by Steve Earle)
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